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Except

Except Meaning & Definition
Except Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Except?

[v] prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
[v] take exception to

Synonyms | Synonyms for Except: demur | exclude | leave off | leave out | omit | take out

Related Terms | Find terms related to Except: abjure | abscind | absolve | amputate | annihilate | apart from | aside from | ban | bar | barring | bate | beside | besides | bob | brush aside | but | chuck | chuck out | clip | contemn | contradict | count out | crop | cull | cut | cut away | cut off | cut out | debar | decline | deny | despise | disapprove | discard | discharge | disclaim | discount | discounting | disdain | dismiss | disown | dispense from | dispense with | disregard | dock | eliminate | enucleate | eradicate | ex | except for | except that | excepting | exception taken of | excise | exclude | excluding | exclusive of | excuse | exempt | expostulate | extinguish | extirpate | forswear | free | from | give dispensation from | grant immunity | however | if not | ignore | inveigh against | isolate | kick | knock off | leave out | leaving out | less | let alone | let go | let off | lop | minus | mutilate | nip | not counting | object | off | omit | omitting | other than | outside of | pare | pass by | pass over | pass up | peel | pick out | precluding | protest | prune | push aside | rebuff | recant | refuse | refuse to consider | reject | release | remise | remit | remonstrate | renounce | repel | repudiate | repulse | root out | rule out | save | save and except | save the necessity | saving | scout | set apart | set aside | shave | shear | shove away | spare | spurn | stamp out | strike off | strip | strip off | suspend | take off | take out | than | throw away | throw out | truncate | turn away | turn out | unless | unless that | waive | were it not | wipe out | without | yet

See Also | do away with | elide | eliminate | get rid of | object

Except In Webster's Dictionary

\Ex*cept"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Excepted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Excepting}.] [L. exceptus, p. p. of excipere to take or draw out, to except; ex out + capere to take: cf. F. excepter. See {Capable}.] 1. To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. --Milton. Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred. --Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. [Obs.] --Shak.
\Ex*cept"\, v. i. To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony. Except thou wilt except against my love. --Shak.
\Ex*cept"\, prep. [Originally past participle, or verb in the imperative mode.] With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting. God and his Son except, Created thing naught valued he nor . . . shunned. --Milton. Syn: {Except}, {Excepting}, {But}, {Save}, {Besides}. Usage: Excepting, except, but, and save are exclusive. Except marks exclusion more pointedly. ``I have finished all the letters except one,'' is more marked than ``I have finished all the letters but one.'' Excepting is the same as except, but less used. Save is chiefly found in poetry. Besides (lit., by the side of) is in the nature of addition. ``There is no one here except or but him,'' means, take him away and there is nobody present. ``There is nobody here besides him,'' means, hi is present and by the side of, or in addition to, him is nobody. ``Few ladies, except her Majesty, could have made themselves heard.'' In this example, besides should be used, not except.
\Ex*cept"\, conj. Unless; if it be not so that. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. --Gen. xxxii. 26. But yesterday you never opened lip, Except, indeed, to drink. --Tennyson. Note: As a conjunction unless has mostly taken the place of except.

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